Improved composition tor tobacco-substitute



waited tatw gaunt dtjiiline.

J. BERTRAMWVEBSTER, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGQNDR TO HIMSELF, \V. E,

' GREENE, AND HENRY E. \VINSLOW', OF SAME PLACE.

Letters'Pa'tcnt No. 92,497, dated Jul 13, 1869.

IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR TOBACCO-SUBSTITUTE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To 1071 om't't may concern:

Be it known that I, J. BERTRAM WEBsTER, of the city of Stockton, in the county of San Joaquin, and State of California, have invented a newand useful combination of matter to be used as a medicine to cure persons of the desire to use tobacco in any way, and especially of the desire to chew it, which I call TherGreat National Tobacco Antidote.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a substance composed of medicinal properties, such that its use by persons suffering from the desire to chew or smoke tobacco of any kind, will in a short time completely kill and annihilate such desire, and afibrd permanent relief therefrom;

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the nature and operation of the same.

It is wholly a vegetable substance, composed of roots, in kind and quantity, by weight, in proportions as follows, to wit One-half (1}) gentian-root, (Gent-innit lutca;) onefourth (i) ginseng-root, (Palm-x qui-nquqfolimn ;i one- W (Gtyoyrflnza glabm and oneeighth (fi's'efika snake-root, (Polygala senega;) which cut up, are mixed together thoroughly, and chewed or smoked in the same manner and in the same quantities as tobacco is chewed and smoked, and asoften as the desire for chewing or smoking is experienced. v

' The use of the aforesaid compositionhy me invented, in the manner above described, will immediately allay the desire for chewing and smoking, even in cases where it has been induced by the habit of chewing and smoking for years, and in a short time effect a permanent cure.

' \Vhat I claim as new, ters Patent, is-

The composition above described, for the purpose set forth;

J. BER/DRAM WEBSTER.

eighth (a) Lil e -f and desire to secure by Let- Witnesses: v

' W.-E GREIVE,

H. E. .WINSLOW, A. J. WEBSTER. 

